"The situation in Hidden Fog is unique. We can't treat it like a normal wild area. All the resources here, from the crystal mine to the ancient technology, are the common wealth of all Dragon Citizens. The benefits of developing Hidden Fog should be shared by all citizens," Meng Chao said without hesitation.
"It's not that the mega corporations can't develop Hidden Fog, but a large portion of the profits will definitely be handed over to the Survival Committee. Then, it will be added to Dragon City's financial system. It will be used for the basic construction of Dragon City, the education and cultivation of the citizens, the renovation of old residential areas, support for small and medium-sized enterprises, and so on.
"Also, the ancient information we unearthed from Ancient Ruins No. 2 — the biochemical technology, the ancient people's spirit energy technology, amazing martial arts, and so on — should be shared with all citizens. We can't let a handful of people monopolize it.
"That's why I personally don't agree to carrying out the Enclosure Law in Hidden Fog!"
"Meng Chao, your opinion is also the Red Dragon Army's opinion."
Admiration and trust shone in Shao Zhengyang's eyes again. He nodded and said, "In truth, if we really implement the Enclosure Act in Hidden Fog Desolate Zone, the Red Dragon Army won't suffer any losses. After all, we have the advantage in numbers, and when we entered Hidden Fog Desolate Zone, we seized a large number of strategic locations.
"But the Red Dragon Army is an armed force that belongs to all Dragon Citizens. We're formed by millions of normal Dragon Citizens, and we will always fight for them.
"Even if the Red Dragon Army wants to develop Hidden Fog, we will do as you said and share all the benefits we obtain, including the crystals and ancient technology, with all citizens.
"But the nine great mega corporations' insistence isn't without reason.
"After all, when we attacked Hidden Fog, the Enclosure Law didn't stop.
"The nine great mega corporations did their best in the final battle.
"Including the nine founders, the nine great universities sent out a total of over 10 Godrank Realm experts, and all of them suffered heavy injuries in the battle. This price can't be said to not be horrifying, and it's human nature for them to ask for a high reward.
"Speaking of which, everyone has their own reasons. No one made any mistakes of principle. If we have to blame someone, we can only blame the enemy for being too weak. They didn't put up much of an effective resistance in their own base, which is why we won too easily and caused a problem!"
As Shao Zhengyang spoke, he couldn't help but laugh.
"Meng Chao, did you know? In truth, even now, I still feel dizzy. It's like I'm dreaming."
After talking to him many times, the strongest fighter in the Red Dragon Army treated Meng Chao as a friend who shared the same ideals, just like Battle God Lei Zongchao. His eyelids twitched, and he sank into his blood-red memories. "The Monster War has been going on for decades, and I spent my entire youth in the midst of monsters' roars. Most of the time, when I woke up from nightmares, I would see monsters' claws and my companions' organs flying in front of me. It was as if I was in another nightmare.
"I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but there was a long period of time when I thought that Dragon City wouldn't be able to win the Monster War and that its destruction was just a matter of time. Everything the Red Dragon Army did was to win a grand ending for human civilization.
"I didn't expect that we would completely turn the tides over the past two to three years.
"Ever since we gained full victory in the northern offense, Dragon City seemed to have obtained fate's favor. The Red Dragon Army also rode the waves, and the battles became smoother. We gained more resources, and the fighting strength of the soldiers at the grassroots level increased by leaps and bounds. More and more powerful elites appeared among the middle and higher management. Everything was so perfect that it was like a miracle!
"After the pitched battle at the borders of Dragon City ended, the monster civilization didn't put up any effective resistance in most of the war zones. We originally thought that the monster mastermind was shrinking its forces and preparing to put up the most tenacious and bloody resistance near their base.
"The Red Dragon Army was prepared to use up all the ammunition they had accumulated over the years and sacrifice two to three Deity Realm superhumans, several Heaven Realm superhumans, and even an army of one million.
"Who would have thought that aside from creating some trouble for us with their illusions, the monster civilization wouldn't be able to put up any sort of struggle?
"Regardless of whether it's the Red Dragon Army, the nine great mega corporations, or even all the superhumans and normal citizens, none of them expected that the victory they yearned for would fall from the sky like this.
"Many people were blinded by victory, and even more were blinded by the astronomical spoils of war. They became … restless, and they changed beyond recognition.
"That's probably what 'happiness worries' should be!"
Meng Chao understood what Shao Zhengyang meant.
In truth, Dragon City's current problem was the same as Superstar's.
It was just that they were expanding too quickly and eating too many resources in one go, so they were having indigestion.
If they could perfectly digest the spoils of war from the monster civilization and the outstanding technology from the ancient ruins, given time, Dragon City's civilization would definitely reach an explosive breakthrough and climb to a brand new level.
However, if one only knew how to devour without restraint and did not think about how to digest the resources they devoured, allowing the nutrients to flow evenly into their limbs and organs, there was a possibility that they would be stuffed to death.
Speaking of which, Meng Chao felt that the monster civilization had lost too easily.
This was especially so when he compared it to his previous life, where both sides had practically bled to the last drop of blood.
Their victory this time felt as if it had been a piece of cake. In fact, it felt as if they had descended from the sky.
If Meng Chao said that he still felt like he wanted more, then he would be too heartless.
But when he thought about the entire battle, Meng Chao did feel that the mother, the monster mastermind, had not fought at full strength.
It has to be known that over the past half a year, there were a lot of monster remnants scattered around Monster Mountain Range. These stragglers had been surrounded, killed, or captured by humans.
If the mother had summoned them back to Hidden Fog in time, it would have definitely turned the place into the most terrifying slaughterhouse.
Also, there was a bacteroid with incredibly high cell division and regenerative abilities in Hidden Fog. Meng Chao and the other exploration members called it the green tide.
The UHV electricity transmission towers covered by the green tide turned into giants that could support the sky. They dragged the armored airships, which were humanity's most powerful, from the air to the ground.
Why did the mother not replicate such a useful biological weapon on a large scale and form a green tide army?
If it was because there were not a lot of UHV electricity transmission towers and they could not get enough steel structures to serve as the frames for the green giants.
Then, they should have been able to find a lot of reinforced concrete in the broken walls of Peach Blossom Town to fill in the green tide army, right?
Also, a lot of evolved Apocalyptic Beasts were not completed due to a lack of resources. They had to be thrown into battle in a hurry in their infantile forms.
But Meng Chao felt that the pitched battle at the borders of Dragon City had ended more than half a year ago. With the mother's intelligence, it should have been able to tell that the monster civilization was losing like a landslide. It was just a matter of time before humans invaded its nest.
If it really wanted to create a batch of evolved Apocalyptic Beasts to defend its final nest, shouldn't it have gathered up its remaining resources and used them?
It should have stopped creating a batch of evolved Apocalyptic Beasts and given all the crystals, spirit energy, and nutrients to the mature Apocalyptic Beasts that had the highest chance of success. In fact, the evolved Apocalyptic Beasts that had stopped creating could also be used to feed the mature Apocalyptic Beasts.
By sacrificing the weak to protect the strong, it should have been able to create three to five evolved Apocalyptic Beasts, or even seven to eight evolved Apocalyptic Beasts that could fight, right?
At the very least, it was better than creating dozens of Apocalyptic Beasts in one go, but they were all in the embryonic or infant stage and none of them could fight.
It was a simple logic that the mother had learned about since the ancient war tens of millions of years ago.
At that time, the mother had ordered the monsters to kill and eat each other. Then, it used the method of raising Gu so that it could create the strongest King of Monsters.
Why was it that after living for tens of millions of years, it was becoming more and more backward?
In any case, the monster civilization's failure was inevitable.
But as long as the mother had the same level of intelligence as Meng Chao, it could deal ten times or even one hundred times more damage to humans.
Why did the mastermind of the monster civilization show mercy when it was about to die?
'Could it be that the mother realized that no matter how much it struggled, it couldn't escape its fate of destruction and was tired, so it decided to give up?
'Impossible! It has to be known that even when it faced its creator, the ancient people who mastered space-based orbital attack technology, the mother did everything it could and fought until its final breath before destruction descended.
'When it faced Earthlings who were one hundred times weaker than the ancient people, the mother had to take a gamble and try everything in its power, right?
'Or could it be that the mother has been asleep for tens of millions of years, and its brain cells and nerve cells have been continuously losing their activity, which has caused its intelligence to dwindle, and in the end, it's even weaker than me?
'Or perhaps it's because I'm a person who returned from the apocalypse and have great luck as a Child of Destiny, so I constantly release a domineering presence that's like a flood.
'Normal superhumans and even Deity Realm superhumans might not be able to see this domineering presence, but the mother keenly sensed my unfathomable cultivation realm and peerlessly powerful methods. It felt that the more it fought back, the more it would die in my hands, so it decided to end the fight quickly and give itself a quick death.'
Meng Chao could not understand it no matter how hard he thought about it.
There was something else that was very strange.
Humans had already dug three feet deep into the monster nests and brought out the "megasphere" and "microbrain" from the "mother" to conduct molecular scans to figure out all the secrets of the monster civilization.
But why did Kindling still show that the progress of the Mystery of the Supernatural Entities was still at 99%?
'Damn it, the monster civilization is already destroyed! How am I supposed to solve the last 1% of the puzzle?!'
Even though Meng Chao was rich right now, he did not covet the contribution points from completing the mission.
But he had a little obsessive-compulsive disorder. Every time he saw the 99% in his field of vision, he felt as if countless ants were crawling all over his cerebral cortex, and he could not stand it anymore.
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